THE chairman of Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg (the Welsh Language Society) was yesterday found not guilty of causing grievous bodily harm during a protest.

Steffan Cravos, 30, had been accused of breaking the wrist of Aimee Bowen, a sales manager at the BBC Radio Carmarthenshire building, on July 24 last year.

It was alleged Cravos, who is also known as musician MC Sleifar, had pushed open a studio door Miss Bowen had been trying to hold closed. He was one of a dozen protesters demonstrating at the building in Narberth, Pembrokeshire, over what the group claimed was the new station's lack of Welsh programming.

Miss Bowen had been holding the door closed for the adjoining studio, which was broadcasting Radio Pembrokeshire, when it was pushed and her wrist broken.

However Haverfordwest magistrates said there was not enough evidence to prove beyond reasonable doubt that Cravos had pushed the door.

The magistrates' chairman said prosecution witnesses Keri Jones, Craig Odlin, Aimee Quant and Miss Bowen had not been able to convince the court they were certain the defendant had been the first through the door.

Cravos said afterwards, "The bottom line is that Miss Bowen would not have suffered the discomfort had we not held our demonstration, and we accept that responsibility."